A Precise Timeline of How Your Body Reacts to Morning Coffee

By Matt Branham

Illustration by Matt Shirley

March 30, 2016

So much of the morning is surrounded around coffee: how badly we need it, how quickly we can get it in our bodies and eventually how bad of an idea it was. Based on a regular workday morn-ing for an average adult, this is a fairly precise timeline of how an avid coffee drinker’s body might react to a cup (alright, a few) of morning joe, just before going terribly awry. If this sounds anything like you, maybe it’s time to dial back the coffee drinking. Or double it, whichever.